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Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Our Correspondent 2019-08-05 00:00:00

SYLHET, Aug 04: Although the upazila heath complex at Nabiganj in Habiganj district was upgraded into a 50-bed one long ago, yet the government-run hospital lacks minimum number of physicians and othe...

Tangail road crashes kill five

Tangail road crashes kill five

-- 2019-08-04 20:23:57

Five people, including a couple, were killed in separate road crashes in Mirzapur, Ghatail and Delduar upazilas of Tangail on Sunday. In Mirzapur upazila, three people were killed when a Tangail-boun...

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

-- 2019-08-04 17:00:46

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man from Charpara border along Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia district on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased was identif...

Five killed in Tangail road accident

Five killed in Tangail road accident

-- 2019-08-04 16:51:45

Five people, including husband and wife, were killed and five others injured in three separate road accidents in Tangail on Sunday. Mirzapur Thana police said three people including husband and wife...

Dhaka-Gaibandha rail link to be fixed before Eid: Minister

Dhaka-Gaibandha rail link to be fixed before Eid: Minister

-- 2019-08-02 19:05:21

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Friday said rail route connecting the capital and eight northern districts via Gaibandha will be restored before Eid-ul-Azha.  “The repair work is...

70 shanties gutted in N’ganj slum fire

70 shanties gutted in N’ganj slum fire

-- 2019-08-02 18:51:57

At least 70 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out in a slum near Narayanganj Zila Parishad office in the district early Friday. Abdullah Al-Arefin, deputy assistant director of Narayanganj Fi...

Borhan Biswas Rumon—a snake lover and farmer

Borhan Biswas Rumon—a snake lover and farmer

Our Correspondent 2019-08-02 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Aug 01: The snake farm owned by Borhan Biswas Rumon of Naohata under Paba upazila in the district is only of its kind in the district. The snake farm known as Snake Rescue and Rehabilitatio...

Joypurhat blacksmiths passing busy time ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

Joypurhat blacksmiths passing busy time ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

Roving Correspondent 2019-08-02 00:00:00

JOYPURHAT, Aug 01: Over 500 blacksmiths in the district are passing busy time at their shops making sharp tools for slaughtering sacrificial animals and preparing their flesh, with the Eid-ul-Azha app...

Road crash kills two motorcyclists in Rajshahi

Road crash kills two motorcyclists in Rajshahi

-- 2019-08-01 09:59:36

Two motorcyclists were killed after a truck hit a motorcycle on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj road in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi in the early hours of Thursday. The deceased were identified as Samad...

Pomelo cultivation ushers in new hope among Gopalganj farmers

Pomelo cultivation ushers in new hope among Gopalganj farmers

Our Correspondent 2019-08-01 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, July 31: Pomelo cultivation has ushered in a new hope among the growers in Gopalganj Sadar and Kasiani upazilas in the district as the cultivators are benefiting greatly from the produce....

Experts ask rearers not to use steroid for cow fattening

Experts ask rearers not to use steroid for cow fattening

-- 2019-07-31 00:00:00

MANIKGANJ, July 30 (BSS): Mankiganj cattle rearers were asked not to use any steroid or hormone tablet for fattening their animals for upcoming Eid-ul-Azha market. Acting district livestock officer D...

Naogaon cultivators busy  transplanting Aman seedlings

Naogaon cultivators busy transplanting Aman seedlings

Roving Correspondent 2019-07-31 00:00:00

NAOGAON, July 30: Famers in the district are passing busy time transplanting Aman paddy seedlings. According to the officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), over 16,7456 hectares o...

Farmers opting for avocado cultivation  in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

Farmers opting for avocado cultivation in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

Our Correspondent 2019-07-30 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, July 29: Farming of avocado, a fruit enriched with various vitamins and containing medicinal quality to resist various diseases, is gaining popularity in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj. In ad...

Floods cause severe damage to  roads in frontier Sunamganj

Floods cause severe damage to roads in frontier Sunamganj

Our Correspondent 2019-07-30 00:00:00

SYLHET, July. 29: Road link in frontier Sunamganj district is yet to become normal although waters have started receding from the area. Direct plying of vehicles remained suspended on the Sunamganj-Ta...

Thousands facing boundless miseries  in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Thousands facing boundless miseries in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-07-28 21:41:12

SIRAJGANJ, July 28: Flooding has brought several thousand people to their knee in Bogura and Sirajganj districts with fresh swelling of the mighty Jamuna and Bengali rivers in recent days.  The...

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

-- 2019-07-28 16:50:53

Many farmers are seen showing interests towards intercropping of mango with various cereal crops especially paddy in the region including its vast Barind tract because the method gives additional inco...

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

-- 2019-07-26 20:07:47

Thousands of farmers are staring at a bleak future after Atrai and Chhoto Jamuna rivers burst their banks, flooding several thousand hectares of farmland in the district. The affected croplands are i...

Three of a family killed in Kurigram road crash

Three of a family killed in Kurigram road crash

-- 2019-07-26 20:04:37

Three members of a family were killed after a minibus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in the sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Mostafa, 35, his wife Josna, 28, and their grandmoth...

Marriage takes place in Feni police station

Marriage takes place in Feni police station

-- 2019-07-26 19:00:03

The Sonagazi Police Station In Feni on Thursday evening witnessed a surprising marriage when a girl was married off to a youth who attempted to kidnap her on the previous day, reports UNB. Officer-i...

Kurigram road crash kills three

Kurigram road crash kills three

-- 2019-07-26 17:28:07

Three members of a family were killed after a minibus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in Kurigram sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Mostafa, 35, his wife Josna, 28, and their gran...

Farmers busy harvesting jute to get ready for  T-Aman farming

Farmers busy harvesting jute to get ready for T-Aman farming

Our Correspondent 2019-07-25 21:47:24

BOGURA, July 25: Farmers in the district are passing busy time harvesting jute to get ready to cultivate T-Aman on the same land. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, a...

Gopalganj betel leaf farmers need govt patronage

Gopalganj betel leaf farmers need govt patronage

Our Correspondent 2019-07-24 21:37:11

GOPALGANJ, July 24: Betel leaf cultivation in the district has been facing a setback due to lack of proper guidance from the department concerned. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...

Road crash leaves two dead in Gazipur

Road crash leaves two dead in Gazipur

-- 2019-07-24 10:50:36

Two people were killed and five others injured in a road crash at Bhuterbazar in Kapasia upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Manik Mia, 30, son of Shahjahan, of Kapasia and Saifuzzama...

Many Tangail farmers become solvent thru commercial  banana cultivation

Many Tangail farmers become solvent thru commercial banana cultivation

Our Correspondent 2019-07-23 20:58:40

TANGAIL, July 23: Commercial banana cultivation has made thousands of growers self-reliant across the district. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources said some 6,353 hectare...

Suraiya, who received bullet wounds in mother’s womb needs better treatment

Suraiya, who received bullet wounds in mother’s womb needs better treatment

Our Correspondent 2019-07-23 20:57:20

MAGURA, July 23: Suraiya, now a four-year- old girl, who had received bullet injury in her mother's womb, is growing up with physical disability and leading a miserable life. During a visit to Suraiy...

Erosion by Teesta takes serious turn with recession of flood water in Rangpur district

Erosion by Teesta takes serious turn with recession of flood water in Rangpur district

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:08:46

RANGPUR, July 22: With the recession of flood water, erosion by the Teesta river has taken a devastating turn, devouring a large portion of the  flood control dyke at Char Binbina village at Kolk...

Flood-hit Bogura farmers selling cattle head at throw away prices

Flood-hit Bogura farmers selling cattle head at throw away prices

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:07:54

BOGURA, July 22: Cattle rearers of Sonatola, Sariakandi and Dhunot upazilas of the district are facing acute fodder crisis as a vast area of pasture land has been submerged by flooding of the mighty J...

Mobarak can consume one kg green chilli a day

Mobarak can consume one kg green chilli a day

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:06:50

RAJSHAHI, July 22: He is popularly known in the locality as 'Pepper Eater Mobarak' from his boyhood. He eats green, red chilli or pepper like that of chocolates. He can chew and consume at least one...

Fodder crisis, high prices of other feeds  frustrate cattle rearers in flood-hit areas

Fodder crisis, high prices of other feeds frustrate cattle rearers in flood-hit areas

Our Correspondent 2019-07-21 21:34:31

RANGPUR, July 21: The cattle rearers in different areas under Rangpur division are apprehensive about making expected profit this year from the sale of sacrificial animals due to the ongoing flood sit...

Ishwardi-16 sugarcane  farming gains popularity among growers

Ishwardi-16 sugarcane farming gains popularity among growers

Our Correspondent 2019-07-21 21:33:28

GOPALGANJ, July 21: Sugarcane cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers of Kasiani upazila in the district. According to the Kasiani upazila agriculture office sources, about 200 hectares o...